Harness-pad plate



(No Model.)

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I No. 244,338. Patented July 12,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN THOMAS, OF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.

HARNESS-PAD PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,338, dated July 12, 1881.

Application filed June 6, 1881. (No model.)

This invention relates to an improvement in harness-pad plates, the object being to avoid the leather covering of the jockey usually employed to securely attach the skirt, and avoid the use of extra pad-screws 5 and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

A represents the pad-plate, constructed with a flange, a, at each side, the plate extending down toward each end, turned up, and terminating, as at- B, in the usual form of the jockey.

Through the plate are the usual openings, b, for the water-hook, and d d for the terret, and the usual back-strap loop, 0, on the rear edge, at the center.

The side flanges, a, are extended downward below the ends of the jockey, and a loop, D, ex-

, tends across from the flange at one side to the 7 The skirt is attached to the barf below the loop D, the said loop serving to hold the skirt solid at that point where it is first attached to the jockey.

Thecovered jockey admits theskirt beneath the plate, thereby dispensing with the usual, leather cover, and permits the finishing of the upper surface smoothly.

The stud or safety-hook it takes the place of the extra pad-screw to hold the skirt in place, and because of being a permanent part of the plate cannot become loosened, as the padscrews frequently do.

I claim-- 1. The herein-described harness-pad plate, consisting of the plate A, terminating at its ends in the covered jockey B, constructed with flanges (0 upon its edges, the said flanges extending beyond the jockey, their ends connected by a loop, D, so as to leave a space between said loop and the jockey, and with a transverse. bar, f, between the flanges at said recess, substantially as described.

2. The herein-described harness-pad plate, consisting of the plate A, terminating at its ends in the covered jockey B, constructed with flanges a upon its edges, the said flanges extending beyond the jockey, their ends connected by a loop, D, so as to leave a space between said loop and the jockey, and with a transverse bar, f, between the flanges at said recess, and a stud or safety-hook, h, upon the under side of the jockey, substantially as described.

JOHN THOMAS. Witnesses:

FRANK A. THOMAS, G. S. Roan. 

